「… In fact, I don't think Mr. Ultramarine will have any surprises. I think it's more important to pay attention to the senior of the ice water who is investigating this matter than Mr. Ultramarine. After all, she was kidnapped—"

Miss Dailan's pale and unrelenting words became staccato under pressure and guilt.

She sat on the guest seat opposite the emperor and was subjected to verbal torture by the emperor. She sadly felt like she was in jail — no, even jail was better than it was now.

"That is—"

The "Emperor" saw the needle and was keenly aware of the loophole in her words: "Do you think there is something wrong with the ice water?"

His body leaned back, and his expression instantly became surprised: "Miss Dailan, how can you have such a terrible idea?

"She just spoke online yesterday, and everyone should know about it. Things have come to this point, and I believe that the audience and friends should know about it. In other words, they all came to watch this episode of the emperor's talk show with these doubts. After all, the guest of this issue is you - we all know that there are many understanding brothers on the Internet. And the chief reporter of Tian'en Daily is always better than anyone who understands my brother."

Dai Lan nodded weakly, "What are you talking about......"

"Or is it," the Emperor paused, "you have new information on your side, and you know that Ice Water is in danger on her side?"

"..... no, I don't know anything. I just want to say that this possibility cannot be ruled out. If everyone else goes missing, Miss Icewater may not be spared..."

"So you think the others have indeed disappeared?"

"No, no, no, I don't have that idea...... Didn't Lady Delphinium's mother already say that they went to Sogo Island to get married. She doesn't think anything will happen to Ultramarines and Delphiniums, and she's very determined. There is no one who knows their children better than parents... In other words, I mean, if Mr. Ultramarines did disappear and lost contact, then she, as their mother, would certainly not have such an unhurried attitude..... so I think they are at least in touch with the family."

"Ah, what a coincidence. I seem to be the father of Ice Water."

The Emperor said faintly, "I have the same opinion as that lady. So I don't think anything will happen to her."

When the words fell, there was a canned laughter from the audience.

But Delan didn't find it funny—she even felt a vague sense of fear.

「…… So, do you have any contact with the seniors of Bingshui?" She showed an innocent smile that Dailan had relied on to make her debut before.

"She just went out yesterday?"

The emperor looked surprised and was silent for a long time: "Do you call your father every day now?"

"I—I won't."

In the sea of canned laughter, Dailan replied with some embarrassment.

"So she wouldn't- scared me to death, I thought you were underage. Does that count as child labor? Who, the choreographer, is going to check Miss Dailan's authentication code. She's an adult, isn't she?"

The Emperor leaned over and looked down. There was a faint response from the audience, "She is indeed an adult", and the emperor suddenly made a thoughtful and suddenly realized expression, and looked at Dai Lan with an expression that wanted to speak and stopped.

The audience suddenly burst into louder laughter.

"Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Good tutoring. Well... That's right."

The Emperor stretched out his hands to the audience and pressed down, showing a fake serious smile to explain for Delan, "Good relationship with family - you, yes, it's you, don't laugh! Be careful, your daughter will not call you when she hears the decision! Every old father's pain!"

In the midst of the long-lasting laughter, Dai Lan forced a smile. She didn't really think it was funny, or rather, she vaguely sensed an aggression. The Emperor seemed to be doing a show with himself, but he didn't even give himself a supportive look - he didn't have to look at himself at all, if he didn't have to.

The Emperor was not such an impolite person. He is a very intelligent and calm middle-aged man

People ..... every word and action of him can be called a weight, and there is a depth in his words and deeds that can be pondered, and they are by no means meaningless and casual.

In other words, he deliberately made this attitude in front of the camera.

The mere realization of the Emperor's faint hostility towards her made Dairy's speech stutter a little, and her palms became wet.

Dai Lan adjusted her sitting posture with some uneasiness, and sat up straight in the chair like a well-behaved student. Instead of throwing the weight of your upper body back on the back of the chair as you did just now.

Beneath the emperor's serious face, which always makes people laugh, seems to hide a pair of hideous fangs.

She only felt a pressure pressing herself.

…… What's going on!

It's not like I made Miss Bingshui disappear...... And why did I be asked to say something like, "I want to justify Miss Icewater's disappearance"? She has just been out of the public eye for a day, so no news is reasonable!

If the board of directors wants to hide the facts, isn't that actually exposing the truth? After she said this strange thing here, people must have realized that it was only a day before the predecessor of Ice Water claimed to be investigating the "truth about the disappearance of Lady Ale" - you must know that this kind of investigation is not only a day or two later. That is, there is nothing to do here, and people naturally forget about it.

The memory of human beings on the Internet does not support them to pay attention to the truth for more than half a month. Tianen Group can easily send out various other public opinion events to attract people's attention... Not to mention half a month, maybe after a week, if no one mentions it, they will just forget it. Even if Bingshui really disappeared, I'm afraid no one will notice it for several months, and even if it does, it may not bother to forward it.

However, if "Dailan" mentioned this incident on the "Emperor's Talk Show", then there must be people who will continue to pay attention to this matter - because it is obviously unnatural that he, as the chief reporter, will directly inject ice water into the "missing" group only one day later. If Miss Bingshui really disappears at that time, people are afraid that something will immediately find out that something is wrong.

Really, why me

My ability is so poor, I can't speak well in front of Mr. Emperor, and I can't cope with Mr. Emperor's interrogation at all.

Why does it have to be me.....

Blue's eyes were slightly reddened because she was aware of her future.

Now that everyone is suspecting that "Ultramarines and the barber were assassinated by the head office", as the "chief reporter" of the Tianen Group, he stood up and said, "I don't think so." This will undoubtedly be seen as an act of betrayal by her fans, who are angry at her – and if she doesn't get people's approval, she will lose her position as "chief".

From small glass to snow, and then to ice water...... Several chief reporters she knew had used the title of "chief" to say things that no one else dared to say, and had tripped over many great bigwigs—fallen heroes, murderous directors, demonic elves......

Those are all big shots that are out of reach for ordinary people. However, the chief reporter was able to expose their black news with a heavy weight, and directly gave an undeniable and irrefutable real hammer. That is always the last and sharpest cut.

When she was young, she learned to sing and dance...... But she had considered the position a supreme honor.

Xiao Liuli can become the chief reporter from an idol - then if she is famous enough, maybe she can too!

After she became a journalist, she began to try to write news for the poor and report on the problems they encountered, hoping to draw people's attention. Although the news she makes is really not watched by anyone and has no effect..... it is because her level is too poor.

Later, Bingshui helped her make an issue - the same news calling attention to the poor, and also using her own account, but that news became popular. It even directly promoted the decision of an average salary increase of 20% in Tongjue District, helping I don't know how many employees to increase their income. And the Tongjue area is now her basic ...... Many of them have become

For her fans and supporters.

It was only after that that Dailan finally realized.....

What can help others is not the name of "chief", not those traffic exposures, but their own real ability.

It was only after that that she finally came to her senses that the power given to them by the position of "chief" may not be the power given to them, but the talent and ability of Xiao Liuli and Bingshui.

But it wasn't until she actually took over Bingshui's position and became the chief reporter and came into contact with those secrets that she really realized that this position was not clean and even more difficult than ordinary reporters.

It's not that after becoming a chief reporter, you can say whatever you want. She does not have the great power she imagined, she can debunk all kinds of fallacies, and she can set things right or even the opposite of all kinds of bad social phenomena, and she has become unable to speak in many things. Because her weight has increased - she has to be held accountable for her words.

What her predecessors had mastered was a "secret way of equilibrium."

Because if a person knows too much, it is easy for him to die suddenly. But if you know a little more, it may not be so good to die, and there is already a constraint and deterrence between secrets and secrets, and only by wandering among people who are enemies of each other and making some dirty promises to make friends with others can there be enough deterrence to reveal other truths.

In other words, they are not the warriors who make the charge. It's just the executioner who cuts off the last sword.

Which people need to be eliminated and which companies need to go out of business is a matter for the Big Seven to determine. It is the board of directors that decides everything in the world, not the Heavenly Grace Daily, let alone her as a small reporter.

And even just to be qualified to cut off this sword, they need to bear more sins. to spread more lies, just to get "qualified".

However, Dailan's ability is obviously insufficient, Xiao Liuli and Bingshui can be at ease under this kind of rule, but she and Bai Xue are both powerless. So Bai Xue is already dead.

It can be said that the countdown to death has already begun when they become the chief.

The guns loaded with live ammunition in the hands of the personal security guards of Dailan are always aimed at the "chief" himself. More important than protecting her safety is preventing them from suddenly saying something they shouldn't say in front of the camera.

According to the secret that Dai Lan now knows..... when Bingshui was kidnapped half a year ago, the first countermeasure initiated by the Tian'en newspaper was not to send someone to rescue her, but to send someone to assassinate Miss Bingshui, so as to ensure that she would not be tortured to reveal important information that could harm the Tian'en Group.

Delan was pretty sure that there must have been more than one gun pointed at her head at a critical moment like this.

If she didn't come to do it, she would have disappeared like ice water; But if she did, she would have been abandoned as an outcast...... If she loses the blessing of the aura of "chief", if she disappears silently, no one will care about her, and people will only gloat at the disappearance of a traitor.

But if she rebels at this point, the bullet will immediately go through her head. Her most tragic and unsightly death will appear on TV without reservation, immediately in front of her parents' eyes.

They must all be watching TV now, watching the emperor's talk show. Because they all know that the guest of this episode is Dailan herself - she is a real child who grew up watching this episode.

As a child, she also imagined what she would say when she was invited.

Was it her childhood? Her happy family? What does she hate about going to school? Her first love, full of twists and turns? What career did she want to do as a child? Funny story from the first time she sang? Her pain in training as an idol trainee? Or is it her clumsy wish that no one will believe?

…… Now, she knows.

What she should be saying is a lie to deceive the people.

Dalan was silent, her mouth slightly open. Like a fish dying of thirst in the air.

"I know him, he's a good guy. He is also a trustworthy person." "He to me

It is promised that priority will be given to those from poor families, as well as those who are ***. He is the one who has come out of such hard times, and he can understand their sufferings and know what they need most."

"Xiao Liuli thinks that being a journalist can't save Happiness Island."

"She will no longer be an idol of the people, but he will be the vanguard of the people." The voice that Dailan made when he interviewed Russell sounded softly in her ears like an auditory hallucination.

And the barber's voice rang out: "All those who really need the help of the Brokers will not believe the rhetoric of the orators.

"I didn't understand this truth before, and I told the poorest and most needy people about a future that they would never see in their lifetime."

Immediately afterwards, it was Xiao Liuli's favorite song when she was a child:

"The bleaker the reality, the more bright dreams are needed—"

At that moment, Dailan's aggrieved tears finally poured out uncontrollably.

She lowered her head and wiped her tears, and the talk show ended because of this. People were pointing fingers at her and talking about it. But as far as the few words she heard, none of them were good.

Because she is a traitor.

Because at the most critical moment, she did not stand on the side of the Brokers, but crawled at the feet of the head office like a dog.

Yes, they all understand the pressure they will encounter, and they also know that they can't tell the truth. They were just venting their anger and repeating some of the facts they already knew in their hearts...... Therefore, their rebuke will only last for a few days, a short period of time. They will soon move on to the next target, and they will be forgotten, but .....

…… However, I'm tired of it. The so-called "chief" journalists, empty pawns, puppets who can't help themselves.

What Xiao Liuli said is really right - the reporter can't save Happiness Island.

- I'm sorry, Mom, Dad.

But I think .....

Clumsy like me, maybe I can also have my own value.

If you can only say one sentence, you will be torn apart.....

"—what I just said," Dalan choked, but with her own life

The clearest voice said, "It's all a lie that the company asked me to tell!" In the next second, the sound of many broken glass in the studio sounded at the same time.

Dalan was so frightened that she immediately closed her eyes tightly, waiting for her death. But the next scene is not a tragedy – it's a miracle.

Those bullets that could easily tear apart Dailan were easily blocked by the old emperor and turned back the way they came.

His old pupils were burning with a strange gray-white faint light that no one had ever seen.

For the first time, the Emperor looked at Dai Lan seriously.

"Good boy."

The Emperor spoke gently and calmly, "Don't be afraid.

"—we're all with you."